A train driver believed to be the oldest in Greater Manchester has shared his experience of spending 50 years on the railways.
Mike Hughes, known as ‘Sparky’, first joined British Rail back in October 1974 when he started working at Bolton station at the age of 25.
He moved on to Manchester Victoria five years later where he became a ‘shunter’ and was responsible for moving trains around the station. READ MORE: Life in the isolated 'jewel' of a village off a Greater Manchester 'road to nowhere' He later joined the team at Cheetham Hill and remained in the same role for the following nine years.
Mike, from Urmston, was then transferred to Red Bank Sidings – now a residential development called Victoria North – in 1989 as a driver and then as the ‘chargeman’.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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